What can you do using SQL Server?

SQL Server is one of the world’s leading data platforms. If you are just starting out with SQL Server, I’m sure that the first questions that comes in your mind is what can you do using SQL Server? What are the possibilities, the available features, and many other similar questions.

Taken from my course on Udemy “SQL Server Fundamentals“, below you can a list of some of the stuff you can do with SQL Server.

So, with SQL Server you can:

Store, organize, and process your data with the use of Databases, and other Database Objects

Since the 2017 release, SQL Server supports Machine Learning. It is an add-on to a database engine instance, used for executing R and Python code on SQL Server (learn more).

Perform and Deploy Data integrations, ETL, etc.

Data integrations and in general Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) operations in SQL Server, are processes that allow you to import data from various sources, transform it based on a given logic, and import it into one ore more destination tables. SQL Server provides more than one method for implementing ETL processes. The major methods are:

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